Minuteman founder: Deport illegals

Monterey Herald ^ | 5/30/05 | Adam Coleman - AP

[NormsRevenge]

LAS VEGAS - The founder of the Minuteman Project rolled into the Sin City on Sunday.

Jim Gilchrist, however, didn't come to gamble or get a lap dance. He came to deliver his oft-repeated anti-illegal immigration message.

He also spelled out his version of hitting the jackpot: deport the millions of illegal aliens occupying the United States back to Mexico.

Send them back by plane or bus, give them money and do it civilly, he said.

''That's what I have in mind,'' Gilchrist told about 200 people who cheered him at the downtown Las Vegas convention center. He made his remarks on the final day of a summit titled ''Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration.''

Gilchrist and other speakers, along with those attending the summit, warned that the United States was under assault. Every time a Mexican flag is planted on American soil, it's a declaration of war, he said.

''If this isn't a declaration of war, I don't know what is,'' he said.

During his 45-minute talk, Gilchrist said he was not a racist and his group was not exclusionary.

Gilchrist said it was the ''Mexican clan, Mexican Nazis'' who were the racists, targeting anyone who was not of their color.

Outside the convention center, about 150 people demonstrated against Gilchrist and the summit.

The mostly Latino protesters waved plenty of Mexican flags and used placards, bullhorns and air horns to get their message out.

''Racists, go home,'' they screamed.

Miguel Barrientos, president of the Las Vegas Mexican-American Political Association, said the people sopping up Gilchrist's rhetoric weren't protecting the country, they were harming it.

''They're creating division among Americans,'' he said. ''We don't need it.''

It appeared the two groups couldn't bridge their differences -- at least not on Sunday. The continuous shouting was too loud and the words too raw.

''Good thing I was in the Marine Corp. to fight for this garbage,'' said Greg Holland, 33, a disabled veteran and local political activist. ''I didn't fight for the Mexican flag, I fought for Old Glory.''

[expatguy]

But if we deport illegals we will have to pay a zillion dollars for a head of lettuce.

[inquest]

The mostly Latino protesters waved plenty of Mexican flags and used placards, bullhorns and air horns to get their message out. ''Racists, go home,'' they screamed.

The irony, the irony...

[Mr. Mojo]

The mostly Latino protesters waved plenty of Mexican flags .....to get their message out.

And the message came through loud and clear: Their loyalty lies 100% with Mexico.

[MizSterious]

Well, yes, but isn't it a bit like throwing a boomerang? Dump 'em on one side of the border, and before you know it, they're back again. No, I don't know what the answer is. Big fences and sharpshooters?

[BenLurkin]

Send them back by plane or bus, give them money and do it civilly, he said.

He is 100% correct, and no -- we won't pay a fortune for lettuce.

[inquest]

No, just big fences. We can easily afford to do it. It's just that the politicians like illegal immigration, so they don't want to do anything about it.

[neutrino]

Send them back by plane or bus, give them money and do it civilly, he said.

Send them back by truck. Don't give them any money. Dump them at the border.

And seal the border so a flea can't get across it...

[MizSterious]

But they climb the fences. There's video of them doing it. There should be something very unpleasant awaiting them on the other side if they do it.

[cowboyway]

Where's GW on this? AWOL.

[beethovenfan]

I just wish somebody in Washington had the "cajones" to
say this. Some day we may have to have another war with
Mexico.

[NRA2BFree]

Well, yes, but isn't it a bit like throwing a boomerang? Dump 'em on one side of the border, and before you know it, they're back again. No, I don't know what the answer is. Big fences and sharpshooters?

Land mine the border. That would stop them!

[DTogo]

The mostly Latino protesters waved plenty of Mexican flags and used placards, bullhorns and air horns to get their message out. ''Racists, go home,'' they screamed.

We are, why don't you?

[Renfield]

THey should be deported across the border via catapult.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

''They're creating division among Americans,'' he said. ''We don't need it.''

More irony. It is the hallmark of leftists. The non-Americasns are complaining about the division among Americans as if they already are.

Don't like the idea of giving them money. They will just give it to corrupt coyotes and come back here.

[soccer_linux_mozilla]

Where's GW on this? AWOL.

worse. he's on THEIR side.

[B Knotts]

The mostly Latino protesters waved plenty of Mexican flags and used placards, bullhorns and air horns to get their message out.

...

''They're creating division among Americans,'' he said. ''We don't need it.''

That, my friends, I believe is called "cognitive dissonance."

[flashbunny]

I heard the number was around three zillion according to the latest study.

Deportation is fine, but everything is meaningless until we build up the border with a secure fence or wall. Then all we're doing is providing a free trip back to their country of origin so they can try crossing again.

[mmercier]

Mass deportations are not the answer, and are unfeasible given the fabricated MSM reality surrounding this issue.

Incentives for illegal immigration need to be killed off one at a time.

The national ID is an unpopular idea, but is a beginning. Deny drivers licenses to illegals (as if it will really matter)...

Holding employers responsible for hiring illegals would be nice, some real enforcement of existing statutes could go a long way.

Holding landlords accountable for renting property to illegals would be nice too.

Local police having the resources to send every illegal they repeatedly arrest to the INS would be helpful. The INS policy of hanging up on locals when they have a "referral" is all wrong.

All nuts that will be cracked, one at a time, year after year... Unless we see the flash bang from a Muslim cell that scampers across the boarder with a nuke thought to be a routine cocaine delivery. Then things will change fast.

We move like lightning after the fact, but never before.

If we do get hit via this route Mexico will likely declare a national Holiday.